Mikolaj Laszkiewicz

Canadian police have dismantled a criminal ring that used “SMS blaster” devices to carry out a massive attack on smartphone users in downtown Toronto. Machines hidden in the trunks of cars driving through the streets spoofed cell tower base stations, leading to 13 million communication disruptions. Tens of thousands of infected phones were cut off from legitimate networks, leaving victims unable to even call emergency services.

Foreign entities, most of which are based in China, are conducting broad, industrial-scale campaigns aimed at stealing the most advanced artificial intelligence models from US companies. The Donald Trump administration is announcing decisive steps, including cooperating with the private sector and holding the perpetrators accountable. At the center of the geopolitical scandal is the Chinese startup DeepSeek and a copying process known as “distillation.”

The demand for AI computing power is growing at such a pace that existing networks simply can’t keep up. In response to this crisis, Google Cloud engineers have unveiled Virgo Network. It is an entirely new data center network architecture capable of linking over 130,000 TPU chips into a single, giant computing machine.

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a “helper” at Google and it has become its primary programming engine. As CEO Sundar Pichai announced during the Cloud Next 2026 conference, three-quarters of all new code at the company is already generated by AI. The role of engineers is shifting merely to approving and supervising it. Despite massive financial results and impressive productivity gains, behind closed doors, the tech giant is engaged in a fierce battle with increasingly strong competition, and some teams prefer to use rivals’ tools.

Medicine is receiving massive support in the fight against bureaucracy. OpenAI has announced the launch of “ChatGPT for Clinicians” – a specialized tool for US medics that impresses with its effectiveness in verifying data and generating documentation. While the vision of automating medical bureaucracy sounds promising, experts issue a reminder: the system is not an FDA-certified medical device, meaning that doctors still bear full responsibility for every decision made.

A mere $20,000 for a drone can change the course of a war – this lesson from Ukraine has fundamentally altered the strategy of the United States. The US Department of Defense has requested a massive budget for fiscal year 2027, allocating a record-breaking $54 billion solely for unmanned technologies.

The European Commission has officially granted marketing authorization for mCOMBRIAX – the world’s first combined mRNA vaccine against influenza and COVID-19. The approval for the American company Moderna is a breakthrough step in simplifying vaccination campaigns, allowing people over 50 to be protected against two dangerous respiratory viruses with just a single shot.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is funding the development of specialized “smart glasses” that will allow federal agents to automatically and invisibly identify people on American streets. The project, initially justified by the fight against illegal immigration, relies on military technologies from Iraq and Afghanistan. As an anonymous DHS lawyer warns, it is actually a step toward “omnipresent surveillance” that will primarily target citizens participating in protests.

Instead of helping, they often mislead and legitimize dangerous pseudotherapies. A new, comprehensive study published in BMJ Open proves that nearly half of the medical advice generated by popular AI chatbots is problematic. Doctors are sounding the alarm, warning against a technology that – by giving evasive answers – could deter patients from conventional cancer treatments.

A recent analysis of 1.3 million medical records from California challenges the prevailing narrative of an unstoppable surge in substance use following legalization. While market commercialization drove teen smoking rates to a record high of 11% in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a sudden emergency brake.